Online trends come and go, but running has been in the spotlight for a while now. It has become a social activity, with ...

A man who goes by Mar online says he picked up his wife’s phone one night after she fell asleep, opened what looked like a ...

When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Romance books have experienced a resurgence in popularity ...

When a 66-year-old man tells researchers that his favorite app “was and is pregnant with my babies,” he isn’t joking. He’s talking about his Replika—an AI chatbot on his phone that he calls his wife, ...

Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT launched. Today, it has 35 million users. Now Kuyda ...

Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda quietly stepped aside as CEO this year. Kuyda just unveiled her new AI startup, Wabi. Kuyda said Wabi will be a social platform for creating and sharing mini-apps. The AI ...

The meet-cute took place in a bookstore. Around the middle of 2019, Elizabeth Held was hunting for great vacation reads at her local independent bookseller, East City Bookshop, a small store tucked ...

Autumn is tailor-made for romance reading. It’s the season when the air turns crisp, sweaters come out of storage, and evenings are best spent with a warm drink and a good book. Shorter days and ...

For the past several years, some people disinterested in human-to-human romantic relationships have been pursuing human-to-AI romantic connections instead. These interactions range from mildly ...

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User reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users claim to be minors, according to a new study. When you purchase through ...